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=== Why Programming and Data Science === | |||
The question of who controls our technology, our information, and our data, is increasingly the question of who controls our experience of the world and each other. Programming is the power to define technology. It can be in, this sense, deeply empowering. | The question of who controls our technology, our information, and our data, is increasingly the question of who controls our experience of the world and each other. Programming is the power to define technology. It can be in, this sense, deeply empowering. | ||
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Programming, you will also find — probably a little today and a lot more later on — is also enormously fun. For me, it's like meditation and problem solving. It's exactly as frustrating as a difficult puzzle and even more rewarding because your solution accomplish something else you were trying to do. | Programming, you will also find — probably a little today and a lot more later on — is also enormously fun. For me, it's like meditation and problem solving. It's exactly as frustrating as a difficult puzzle and even more rewarding because your solution accomplish something else you were trying to do. | ||
===Why Python | === Why Python === | ||
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==== Python is a fantastic language to learn ==== | ==== Python is a fantastic language to learn ==== | ||
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* One of the langauges for science (national weather services, NASA, genomics reseachers) | * One of the langauges for science (national weather services, NASA, genomics reseachers) | ||
* ''Python really shines when it comes to dealing with data and with the web.'' | * ''Python really shines when it comes to dealing with data and with the web.'' | ||